According to prosecutors, Boggs became Travis Watson’s mentor after the pair met when Watson was a high school freshman in Texas. Watson played for Virginia from 1999 to 2003.

Boggs offered to invest a portion of Watson’s earnings from playing professionally overseas. Between 2009 and 2011, Watson wired $358,000 to accounts controlled by Boggs, who admitted using nearly all of the money to pay personal expenses for himself and his relatives.